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Over here in UK there isn’t anything I can find in the news about Hurrican Gustav. I’m really surprised to see this as usually we have so much news about everything here. There’s been a mass evacuation in Louisiana in the USA recently and it’s been big news. Since the disaster of Hurricane Katrina the US authorities have been prepared for the storm and residents of Lousiana have been relocated in motels, hotels and shelters. Here’s some clippings from NPR.org an online news channel. You can view the whole article at New Orleans, Gulf Coast Assess Gustav Damage. by Dina Temple Raston. You can also listen to the podcast audio version instead of reading the article.
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Bracing for what Mayor Ray Nagin had said would be the “storm of the century,” local, state and federal authorities directed one of the nation’s largest exoduses, getting some 2 million people along the Gulf Coast out of the path of Hurricane Gustav over the course of 2 1/2 days.
The city remains under a mandatory evacuation order and curfew. Power lines are down all over the city, and electricity is out in some 80,000 homes in New Orleans. Some 35 substations are believed to be out of service. The city’s sewer system also took a hit
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